precision

From Glossary of Meteorology
The quality of being exactly defined.

Sometimes indicated by the minimum number of significant digits required for an adequate representation of a quantity. Not the same as accuracy but often confused as such. A measurement having small random error is said to have high precision; a measurement having small systematic error or bias is said to have high accuracy.

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